Mon 27 October 2023: Social media has been awash with fake images of a stylish Pope Francis, Elon Musk protesting in New York and Donald Trump resisting arrest. uch AI-generated images and videos, or deepfakes, have become increasingly accessible due to advances in artificial intelligence. As more sophisticated fabricated images spread, it will become increasingly difficult for users to differentiate […]
Continue Reading
Mon 27 October 2023: A new front has emerged in Israel’s fight against the funding of groups from Hamas to Hezbollah: A fast-growing crypto network called Tron that until recently attracted less scrutiny than Bitcoin, Reuters reports. Quicker and cheaper than Bitcoin, the Tron network has overtaken its rival as a platform for crypto transfers associated with […]
Continue Reading
Sun 26 October 2023: Whether you’re an influencer, an occasional poster, or just a lurker, you likely spend more time than you’d like on social media. Globally, working-age people with internet access now spend more than 2.5 hours per day on social platforms like Instagram, Facebook or X (Twitter). Social media use can become excessive and problematic […]
Continue Reading
Thu 23 October 2023: It is almost a year since ChatGPT burst onto the scene, fuelling great excitement as well as concern about what it might mean for education. The changes keep coming. Earlier in the year, MyAI was embedded into social media platform Snapchat. This is a chatbot powered by ChatGPT, which encourages teens to ask anything […]
Continue Reading
Thu 23 October 2023: The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media found that Meta – the company that owns Facebook and Instagram – is reaping financial benefits from the dissemination of harmful content on its platforms. The Palestinian digital rights group’s investigation was prompted by the discovery that Facebook ran targeted ads calling […]
Continue Reading
Tue 21 October 2023: When you use the internet, you leave behind a trail of data, a set of digital footprints. These include your social media activities, web browsing behavior, health information, travel patterns, location maps, information about your mobile device use, photos, audio and video. This data is collected, collated, stored and analyzed by […]
Continue Reading
Sun 19 October 2023: As major businesses like Disney and Apple left X, Elon Musk threatened to file a “thermonuclear lawsuit” against a US media watchdog that allegedly claimed advertisements were running alongside antisemitic content. Earlier this week, the watchdog group Media Matters for America revealed that it had discovered antisemitic content on X, the […]
Continue Reading
Sat 18 October 2023: Elon Musk, in one of his typical sweeping announcements about a policy change to X, formerly Twitter, claimed on Friday that the terms “decolonization” and “from the river to the sea” are euphemisms that “necessarily imply genocide,” and that using them on the platform might “result in suspension.” Both expressions are […]
Continue Reading
Fri 17 October 2023: For many of us, group chats are part of the texture of our social lives. These groups, formed on apps like Messenger or Whatsapp, can be as large as a hundred people or as small as three. We use them for organising one-off tasks or events, managing recurring coordination between groups like sports […]
Continue Reading
Thu 16 October 2023: Cyber-attacks are on the rise globally, with seriously negative implications for countries’ strategic, national, economic and social well-being. A cyber-attack can be defined as an unauthorised attempt – successful or not – to infiltrate a computer or computer system for malicious purposes. Reasons for such attacks vary from financial gain to espionage, […]
Continue Reading
